Although things could be better at Arsenal right now, I’m looking forward to Saturday’s game against Bournemouth. Not because I’m especially confident, not because I think we’re going to blow them away and get back on track, not because I think the manager is going to show us some clarity of thin...

If you are over the age of 20, a loan spell usually forms the opening paragraph of your last chapter with Arsenal. Time and again in recent years since ‘Project Youth’ was closed off, players have been released on loan either to park problems (Podolski, Szczesny, Senderos, Perez, errr, Park) or b...

Morning all. That’s it, the Interlull is done and dusted, and we can get back to what’s important: figuring out how the hell to beat Bournemouth. More on that anon. It looks as if everyone who was away on international duty will be coming back unscathed, there are no reports of any injuries at th...

I’ve gone podcast crazy this week! Following up on the great discussion about the youth system with Jeorge Bird, here’s another show for you. With me to discuss what has been a very interesting summer for Arsenal is the BBC’s David Ornstein. No doubt many of you saw his summary of our off-season,...

I’m sure by now you’ve seen the contents of David Ornstein’s Tweet about Arsenal’s summer, what happened, and how it all went down. If not, you can read it in full here. It’s a perfect illustration of how context is so important. It’s not just what happens, but how it happens. The club’s insisten...

There’s no Arsecast Extra today because James got married at the weekend as is rightly having a few days away. We’re not leaving you high and dry podcast-wise though. With me in this episode to discuss the Arsenal youth system is Jeorge Bird. Jeorge’s long running blog is the definitive source fo...

We have a week of distance from that debacle at Anfield, the melee of the transfer window is slowly beginning to fade into the distance and the end of the first intrusive international break of the season is almost upon us. With all that in mind, it seems to be a good time to look … The post Ta...

Morning, welcome to a new week, the Interlull is still upon us, but over the weekend Arsene Wenger provided some titbits in an interview with Telefoot. He spoke about the bid for Thomas Lemar, confirmed we’d offered €100m and said we’d try again for him at some point in the future. Most interesti...

Happy Sunday to you all. We’re right in the thick of the Interlull, and yesterday I watched Ireland play Georgia for a bit. I did not realise that Georgia were actually Brazil. At least I think that’s what happened, because they were doing this crazy thing with the football. What they did was, an...

Good morning, sorry this blog is a bit late but I had a lie-in. It’s been a hectic week so I allowed myself the luxury of staying in bed for an extra hour or two. It also gave me time to think about the future, and now that the transfer window has closed and Arsenal … The post “Haha, they’re...

Hello, how you are, good day to you, greetings, top of the morning to you, and so on. I think I’m still slightly delirious having live blogged the entirety of transfer deadline day yesterday, then recorded a podcast immediately afterwards. Sure, sweet delicious Woodford Reserve helped last night,...

The transfer window is now closed, what we have we hold, and what we did on deadline day wasn’t that inspiring. In fact, it’s a summer in which it feels we’ve failed to really invest properly in the squad. As a club we’ve ended up £30m in profit during the window, and as they say … The post Epi...